This is funny. I did a query for “Is the Democratic Party dying” and came up with this New York Times story from 1905:

IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DYING?

October 14, 1905, Saturday
Page 8, 394 words

A partisan contemporary asks, “Is the Democratic Party dying?” The basis of the question is the Administration’s adoption of some Democratic ideas, and the praise of the President by some Democratic leaders and conventions. Thus the Rhode Island Democratic Convention on Thursday approved Mr. ROOSEVELT’S railway rate regulation ideas, and Tammany, like Mr. BRYAN, has indorsed a political opponent.

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(You can read the whole article as a .pdf document.)

I don’t know what it means except that there’s nothing new under the sun, and neither the Democratic nor Republican parties are dying, though one certainly seems to have a case of the “blues” right now (pun intended!)

Ooops. Guess my comment had too many links in it.

Never mind.

I dug it So. Beale.

I dug it So. Beale.

Thanks, ‘coma! I guess the internets are being funky today. I noticed my latest post on Cindy McCain hasn’t hit any of the news readers nor does it show up on the Google searches. Conspiracy? You decide! I just report!

Republicans using fear mongering? No way. Never. After all a vote for B. Hussein Osama is a vote for black hegemony, Wright? BTW, anyone seen Cheney lately? I know he’s not preparing an “October surprise”…

One problem the Hispanic community faces in the battle for humane immigration reform is that young single males, with their often disruptive behavior, have a tendency to maintain the highest profile as whites begin to experience their neighborhoods’ rapidly changing ethnicity. This is a dirty little secret (only in the sense that it doesn’t seem to get brought up much in “legit” discussions on immigration) that help to fuel the type of hard-line immigration policy that doesn’t necessarily make sense when considered in the light of statistical and other evidence.

When Chavez claims that “Noonan errs, however, in placing much of the blame for the GOP’s supposed death rattle on President Bush”, he seems to be assuming that Hispanics are the only group that may be waning in support for the current GOP, which is not the case. Many Evangelicals and economic conservatives are feeling disappointment with the GOP, and Bush specifically. Now, one may argue that they have nowhere to go, but they don’t have to necessarily go anywhere to hurt the party. Unfortunately, Mr. Chavez did not link to Noonan’s article so I did not check to see if my inference was born out of context.

Mr. Chavez describes black support for the Democrats as “almost blind allegiance”, but I think blacks are quite capable of making informed decisions regarding which Party is more likely to represent their interests. Black Republicans have a tendency to be upper middle class or upper class, for example.

Dying? More like it pulled a hammie. A little ice, some time off, back in the game. The last Democrats to actually serve were Clinton, Carter, and Johnson.

Neither party is healthy, but neither is all that beat up either. The truth is the two parties are as energized as ever. It will be a long strange summer.

Great!

And while the Dick Cheneys and Karl Roves of the world are back in their dungeons cooking up their next misinformation campaigns, the rest of us will be stuck trying to undo the damage caused by these slimeballs, including ending the illegal occupation of the Middle East, reestablishing strong diplomatic relations with our allies, working with the international community to find effective strategies to combat political violence, salvaging what’s left of the American economy, putting the budget back on the road to recovery, restoring education and winning the war on science, addressing man made global warming, and lifting America up out of the third world and reestablishing ourselves as a model of integrity and prosperity.

Damn, we’ve got our work cut out for us.

Get out of the way if you can’t lend a hand.